Palestinian views on the peace process
Background
Yasser Arafat and the PLO
Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River.... The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it.
— Yasser Arafat, 1970[9]
The
However, during the 1990s and 2000s the PLO leadership has stated that it considered any peace with Israel was to be temporary until the dream of Israel's destruction could be realized.
Since the 1990s, there has been a debate within the PLO as to whether to halt terrorist activities completely or to continue attacking Israel as well as negotiate diplomatically with Israel.[16] In practice, terrorism was never fully banned. Furthermore, assassination attempts by radical Palestinian factions within the PLO since the early years of the peace process kept Arafat from expressing full, public support of the peace process or condemnation of terrorism without risking further danger to his own life.[17]
In 2000, after Yasser Arafat rejected
Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad
The stated goal of
In 2008, Hamas publicly offered a long-term
Prominent Palestinians
Rashid Abu Shbak, a senior PA security official declared, "The light which has shone over Gaza and Jericho [when the PA assumed control over those areas] will also reach the Negev and the Galilee [which constitute a large portion of pre-1967 Israel]."[29][30]
The PA's Voice of Palestine radio station broadcast a Friday prayer sermon by
PA cabinet minister Abdul Aziz Shaheen told the official PA newspaper, Al-Havat Al-Jadida, on January 4, 1998, "The Oslo accord was a preface for the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Authority will be a preface for the Palestinian state which, in its turn, will be a preface for the liberation of the entire Palestinian land."[citation needed]
See also
References
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- Yaalon, Moshe (2007-01-22). The Changing Paradigm of Israeli-Palestinian Relations in the Shadow of Iran and the War against Hizballah. Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
External links
- "Mideast Peace Process: Palestinian View" online interview with washingtonpost.com. 8 February 2005.
- "Palestinian Positions toward Israeli Peace Movements and Normalization with Israel" by Aluma Solnik and Yotam Feldner. Middle East Media Research Institute. 21 August 1998.
- "A Pessimist's View of the Peace Process" by Yigal Carmon. Middle East Forum. 13 February 1997.